SPECULATIVE POETRY

These are my science fiction, fantasy, and horror poems. The periodical listed after each title is where the poem first appeared (outside my books). See BIBLIOGRAPHY for a more detailed publication history.

pp = prose poem

Current (2021-present)

Walking the Suburb

Winter Solstice

Not a Writer (Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024)

In Dreams (Flash Digest 2024; accepted as flash fiction) - pp

I Walk the Spinney With You (I Become The Beast 2024)

How Some People Disappear

Venom and Bite

Eternal Love, Eternal Night (The Vampiricon; 2023 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications) - pp

Conjoined Creatures (The Vampiricon; 2023 anthology from Mind's Eye Publications)

Wormholes (non-extant)

Synchronous Fireflies (non-extant)


The Great and Final Feast (Spectral Realms 2024) - pp

They Sing Me Along (Space & Time Magazine 2023) - pp

Mother Nature and the AI Poet (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2023)

Servant of the Siren (Spectral Realms 2023) - pp

When Confronted by an Elder God... (Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2024)

Awakening (Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2023)

Incident at the Galactic Tollbooth


Pitcher Plant (Star*Line 2022)

From Below (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2022) - pp

Final Gathering (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2022) - pp

Thwarted (I Become The Beast 2024)

Ratri and the Grieving Botanist (Eternal Haunted Summer 2021) - pp

Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana (Not One of Us 2022; 2023 Rhysling Award nominee) - pp

Last Soldier on the Beach (Spectral Realms 2022) - pp

The God of Dark Fantasy Prose-Poetry (Spectral Realms 2022) - pp

Wandering Albatross (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2022)

The Next Incarnation of Joan (The Fifth Di... 2022) - pp

Mother Earth's Red Sister (JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2022) - pp

Slishra-Ew (Weird Fiction Quarterly 2023; published as flash fiction) - pp

Lifer (Illumen 2022) - pp

The Moth Fairies Pay a Visit (Space & Time Magazine 2022) - pp

Allure of the Western Sky (Spectral Realms 2021)

Haviland Crater (Awen 2022)

Desert Roots (abandoned)

Death Droplet (abandoned)


2010-2020

Belch (Space & Time Magazine 2012) - pp

Faerystruck Down (Tales of the Talisman 2013; 2014 Rhysling Award nominee)

Ghoul of the Enamel (Spectral Realms 2015) - pp

Goblins Came, The (The World of Myth Magazine 2012)

Illusion for the Web of Roads (Sein und Werden 2012) - pp

Intimate Universes (Tales of the Talisman 2014; 2015 Rhysling Award nominee)

Making Amends (Star*Line 2013)

Misery of He Who is Outside the Realm of Man (Tales of the Talisman 2014)
 - pp

Neutral Ground (The Linnet's Wings 2014) - pp

Never Let It In (Death Throes Webzine 2013)

New Pattern (The Speculative Edge 2012)

Out of the Ad Space (Aoife's Kiss 2012; voted best poem of Issue 42)

Politician's New Heart, The (The Speculative Edge 2012) - pp

Post-Funeral Mission to Mars (Tales of the Talisman 2014)
 - pp

Sketch by Sketch (Rose Red Review 2014) - pp


Usurpers Evil (unpublished)

What We Know of Goddesses (Tales of the Talisman 2015) - pp


Before 2010

Arachnophobia Cured! (Spaceports and Spidersilk 2009)

Dryad Weeping on a Fallen Tree (Space & Time Magazine 2011)

Each Second That Passes (Penny Dreadful 1999)

Glass Hope (Death Head Grin Anthology, Vol. 1, 2012)

Impatient, The (Thirteen Myna Birds 2011SNM Horror Magazine's Best of 2012)

Killing a Man on a Bridge for Pleasure (Death Head Grin 2011) - pp

Props at My Funeral, The (Poetry Super Highway 2009Thick With Conviction's Best of the Net 2011 nominee)

Somewhere (4th Annual Skyway Writers Festival Honorable Mention, 1999)

Stopwatch (Down in the Dirt 2009; featured on a UK-based radio program in 2013; Poetry Kit's Poem of the Week, 2013)

Ted (Catfish Gringo River 2011)

White Goddess, The (non-extant)

White Truth (Songs of Innocence 1999)

Yeti, The (unpublished children's poem)

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